Re: [Discuss] Need speaker and topic for October BLU meeting

2014-10-11 Thread Christopher Perrault
Bill Ricker wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: I suggested possibly a talk on file systems, such as EXT, BTRFS, XFS, and ZFS. Target this to users without getting overly technical. ... Another part of this would be RAID. Great idea for topic, need a

[Discuss] And again with the certificate authorities.

2014-10-11 Thread Richard Pieri
This time around it's HP: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/hp-accidentally-signed-malware-will-revoke-certificate/ With a twist: the CA itself was not compromised. One of the computers trusted with code signing had become infected with a bit of malware that got itself signed with a HP

Re: [Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - Linux runs the spectrum from High Performance to Power Efficient Computing

2014-10-11 Thread Tom Metro
Summary Dart on Debian on BeagleBoneBlack, plus a Linux HPC update Abstract Brian DeLacey introduces the recent packaging of the Dart language for Debian on the BeagleBoneBlack. FYI, I see Micro Center now carries the Beaglebone Black and has them in stock in Cambridge for